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alexandral ([personal profile] alexandral) wrote2009-02-03 11:25 pm

Korean "Boys over Flowers". And "Mei-chan no Shitsuji"

I am staying away from the spoilers for the episodes 9 and 10 of "Boys over Flowers" (I know the main direction from previous versions) because I promised my daughter yesterday to watch them together when subtitles are out. Parental love is the strongest thing in the world.

Also - I am hugely obsessed with Mei-chan no Shitsuji (Mei-chan's butler). Why no-one is watching this??? It has a spunky spectacles-wearing girl with a dedicated super-butler caring for all her needs?????????????

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2009-02-03 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so glad you are watching! It has such a crazy premise but I am just loving it. I remember the guy from in Zettai Kareshi (he was very pretty!) but I don't rememebr him in Hana kimi at all. MUST RE_WATCH.

[identity profile] seven-trees.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
I love the girl playing Mei. She doesn't come off too "cute for the sake of being cute". And the guy playing the butler is SO PRETTY. If Japan ever does a live action of any guy-crossdressing-as-girl manga, the HAVE to have him in it.

I do like the chemistry the actors have going on, but I hate Rihito's younger brother. I just can't stand him.

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Me too! The girl is lovely but not "too cute", I like the personality she projects the most (normal girl with a bit of character in a strange set of circumstances but wanting to do the best). The guy is sooooooo pretty and they have stacks of chemistry. The younger brother is a pest, but he is comic relief character and Asian drama comic relief characters often annoy me (as, for example, the whole Jan Di's family does too).

[identity profile] seven-trees.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
I read that she was also in ProDai and couldn't believe it. She looked SO different in that.


I keep wanting to beat the younger brother with a broom. Which is strange since I don't usually get that urge, but MY GOD GO AWAY PLEASE.

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I keep wanting to beat the younger brother with a broom. Which is strange since I don't usually get that urge, but MY GOD GO AWAY PLEASE.

I WANT TO CUT HIS HAIR too, but the same goes (in a lesser degree) for everyone in this drama. But yep, he kind of looks quite dim.
Edited 2009-02-04 14:40 (UTC)

[identity profile] seven-trees.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I WANT TO CUT HIS HAIR too,

I want to dye his hair back to black. Sorry kid, orange is not your color.

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
** agrees heartily ** I really not keen on the orange dye. I think Ji Hoo could have been prettier without too. :D
Edited 2009-02-04 18:18 (UTC)

[identity profile] seven-trees.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not a big fan of the orange die. I particularly hate it when actors with darker skin-tones die their hair that carroty orange color. Ugh.

I think the actor who plays Ji Hoo is going to have a hell of a time not being typecast as the pretty boy in dramas. I've read articles about how he gets so annoyed when people think he's feminine, because he's not AT ALL. I read that and thought, Yeah, Princess, SURE. No one is more macho than Ji Hoo.




[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! You made me laugh so hard. He is indeed such a girly boy! Neither Oguri Shun nor Vic Zhou were nowhere as girly.

I wish in Korean BOB they did something innovative and brought Ji Hoo and Seo Hyun back together. I always wanted them to be together at the end.

[identity profile] seven-trees.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the idea of Ji Hoo and Seo Hyun together. I think they've only stayed together in the anime version.

The only thing I really want for BOF is for there not to be a love triangle. Ji Hoo isn't my favorite version of Rui, but as long as he's not being an OTP interloper I'm fine with his character.

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2009-02-05 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
There was an anime version too???? With Ji Hoo and Seo Hyun????

Re: love triangle. I wonder how this will go. In both previous versions it was cler whom Shinkai/Makino preferred, though I loved Rui so much I couldn't see how anyone could not have chosen HIM.

[identity profile] seven-trees.livejournal.com 2009-02-05 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I haven't seen it, but Dangermousie posted something once about how it was the only version where Rui and Shizuka got together.

The only version where I've loved Rui as much as Doumyouji was in the J-drama. I thought Oguri Shun was excellent in that. And hot, though only in the second season. It's probably been one of the few times where I've found orange hair attractive.

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2009-02-05 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The only version where I've loved Rui as much as Doumyouji was in the J-drama. I thought Oguri Shun was excellent in that. And hot, though only in the second season. It's probably been one of the few times where I've found orange hair attractive.

YESS! This is the version I meant too. As much as I like Vic Zhou, he was too limp as Lei (IMHO). Oguri Shun, on the other hand, does that introvert/cool as ice/mysterious/elegant thing to perfection. And because Japanese Tsukasa was sooooo ugly I just was rooting for Oguri Shun as Rui all the way, orange hair or not.

[identity profile] seven-trees.livejournal.com 2009-02-05 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oguri Shun, on the other hand, does that introvert/cool as ice/mysterious/elegant thing to perfection.

TOTALLY. And he had so much chemistry with everyone that I never minded it when he got in between the OTP.

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2009-02-09 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
He was THE OTP for me. :D

[identity profile] seven-trees.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesus, I cannot spell the word "dye" to save my life.

[identity profile] bzoppa.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
omg, I want to kill Jan Di's family. I hate that we have to waste precious minutes watching them when I could be watching F4 instead.

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2009-02-04 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
And , really, they are out of the better set of comic relief character. I liked Jan Di's fater in many other dramas (though I like him less in BBF).